My Funny Valentines

Today I wanted to get some pictures of the girls in their Valentines Day shirts.

They started out silly...



...then Mary had a minor meltdown.


She wasn't THAT loud...


But after all this time trying to get a sweet picture of my beautiful girls...


...I realized the best pictures can't be staged.

Mary's Duck Walk

Hey, what's all that white stuff??

No matter what the weatherman says, when you live in the South you never expect snow. We got the surprise of our lives late yesterday afternoon when we looked outside and saw huge snowflakes falling and sticking! We had so much fun and the girls were just beside themselves. Emma's only fear was the school was going to be cancelled today. What?!? I thought kids looked forward to "Snow Days"!

Bath Time Pictures

This is my first attempt at posting a slideshow on our blog, so hopefully it will work! It does play music but you can click the speaker to mute the sound. There are some pictures from the girls' bath earlier tonight, but I also put in some older ones from last August, when Emma was not quite 4 1/2 and Mary was 16 months old. It's amazing how fast they are growing up! I am also throwing in a couple of pictures of Samson, just because he's such a sweet boy.

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year with the girls and our families. Emma and Mary must have been at the very top of Santa's "Nice List" this year, because he really brought them some great stuff!
...the girls in their Christmas pajamas and ready for bed on Christmas Eve.

...Emma's persistence paid off; she finally got her drum set and she was absolutely ecstatic!

...Emma with her Hannah Montana microphone.

...Santa must have known that the girls love to share with Mama, because he filled their stockings with lots of chocolate!

...Mary confiscated Emma's gumball machine immediately and carried it around for most of the morning. We finally had to distract her with the candy in her stocking and hide the gumball machine.

...Mary in her new Learning Chair. Notice she's carrying a bowl of candy from her stocking. For some reason, she won't eat ANYTHING these days if it's not served in a bowl.

...Mary, Learning Chair, bowl of candy.

...it's a shame Santa wasted so much time making all of those neat toys for Mary, when all she wanted was a stocking full of chocolate.